42 Quotes by Jacques Delors

I would not be opposed to devising a new system of pensions, in which one part was based on collective provision, but which also gave incentives for people to take out an additional, personal plan.

My problem is how to find the best way of being useful.

The unions may continue to decline, but if they do, it'll be their fault.

We will have to create an avant-garde.... We could have a Union for the enlarged Europe, and a Federation for the avant-garde.

The driving force behind the liberal counter-offensive in Europe has been a reaction against irresponsibility.

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people.

...within ten years 80% of our economic legislation, perhaps even fiscal and social as well' would come from the EU.

I cannot resign myself to thi decline of Europe, and of France.

Cinema explains American society. It’s like a Western, with good guys and bad guys, where the weak don’t have a place.